Before Obama: A Reappraisal of Black Reconstruction Era Politicians by Matthew Lynch

Before Obama: A Reappraisal of Black Reconstruction Era Politicians

Matthew Lynch

558 pages first pub 2012 (editions)

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Between 1865 and 1876, about 2,000 blacks held elective and appointive offices in the South, but these men faced astounding odds. They were belittled as corrupt and inadequate by their white political opponents, who used legislative trickery, libe...

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